Recruiter, Mission & Business Operations

About the role

The Role: Great technology loses to good technology that reaches the customer first. You'll hire the people who make sure ours gets there, and the people who keep the company running while it scales. This seat owns hiring for Mission and defense business development, business operations, finance and accounting, real estate, and marketing. The searches are fewer, but every one of them matters. Many are the first hire in a function: the finance leader who takes us into our next stage, the real estate lead who helps stand up a new facility, the capture and program people who put our aircraft and software in front of the warfighter. We treat them like the high‑stakes searches they are.

How We Recruit: We're a small recruiting team building a defense company that has to win. Here's how we operate, and we hire recruiters who already work this way. The Standard: We know the work deeply. We are not generalists hiding behind job descriptions; we study the engineering, the domain, and the landscape until we can hold a real conversation with a practitioner. Every candidate who talks to us should call it the best recruiting experience of their career, and we each bring our own personality to get there. High touch, never scripted. How We Think: One foot old school, one foot forward: we're obsessive about the fundamentals of recruiting and restless about finding better ways to do it. We play the long game and hire for what someone will do in two and five years, not just next quarter. And we'd rather define the industry standard than follow it. How We Operate: Mission first, always. Speed is a competitive weapon, and we use it. Quality over comfort: we'll have the harder conversation with a hiring manager before we'll make the easy hire. If that reads like a description of how you already work, we want to talk.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle hiring across Mission, business operations, finance and accounting, real estate, and marketing
• Recruit defense BD, capture, program, and mission roles with real credibility, and know where those people come from: primes, defense tech startups, the Pentagon, and the operational force
• Run senior and first-of-kind searches like an executive search partner: map the market, calibrate early, and close hard
• Be the advisor first-time hiring managers didn't know they needed; challenge the role when it's wrong and help define what great looks like
• Build relationships with future leaders before we need them, so the next search starts warm
• Convince exceptional people who never pictured themselves in defense that this is the most important work they'll ever do

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including senior or executive-level searches
• Recruited in or around defense, government, or national security, and know the difference between BD, capture, and program management